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Title: English cholera
Post by: mrcakey on Thursday 11 July 24 20:52 BST (UK)

Just downloaded the death register entry for my 3x GGF to discover he died of "English cholera". I Googled English cholera and can't find anything specific.

Was the doctor just making some sort of nationalistic point or is it an actual thing?

Title: Re: English cholera
Post by: KGarrad on Thursday 11 July 24 21:34 BST (UK)

When was this?

The four great cholera years in Wales were 1832, 1849, 1854, and 1866, and in the summer months of each of those years the disease caused several hundred deaths.

A less malign infection generally known as 'cholera nostras' or 'the English cholera' had been quite common in these islands long before the advent of Asiatic cholera or 'cholera morbus'. It was simply a summer diarrhoea generally resulting from contamination of food with the Salmonella group of micro-organisms.

See: https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/Archives/NLWjournals/Cholera

Title: Re: English cholera
Post by: hanes teulu on Friday 12 July 24 11:17 BST (UK)

See col 4 - "Unripe fruit"
https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4460915/4460918/19/%22english%2BOR%2Bcholera%22